January 2011
8 posts
A tale of Amazon and Apple - Shite and Great, but...
So I bought two products in the last two days, an Apple TV and a Kindle.
I got the 3G Kindle, and true to Amazon’s claims, it worked out the box,very easy to setup, I was reading a book within a few minutes of opening the box. Even the new WebKit browser isn’t bad, I wouldn’t make a habit of it, but it’d do the job in a tight spot.
The clarity of the screen is...
Amazing Terminal app, check it out. →
Aperture is a bargain
Aperture is bloody cheap on the App Store, £45, and worth every penny. Honestly, I prefer LightRoom, but it’s over £200 more expensive, so I’ll learn to like Aperture.
This is a great deal for consumers, but I’m a little worried that such a good application is sold for so little. Will this mean other non-Apple ‘pro’ apps will need to sell for less?
I feel the...
The Kings Speech
From the worst film I’ve ever seem (SATC 2), to a great one. The Kings Speech is brilliant, if you haven’t already seen it, get it seen.
SATC 2
Saw Sex and the City 2 over the weekend, I was curious to see if it was as bad the reviews made out. Long story short, yes, it is, in fact, it’s worse.
I’m not going to rant about it, but it’s truly atrocious, the worst film I’ve ever seen, I’m serious.
It’s about four self important characters whose idea of nightmare situation is having to fly back from a...
Receipt Validation
Daring Fireball says this of apps that don’t validate App Store receipts and thus can be ‘bootlegged’
Apple should test for this in the review process, and reject paid apps that are susceptible to this simple technique.
Why? If a developer wants his or her app to be easily run on multiple machines, why shouldn’t they be allowed to?
It’s not the place of Apple...
Use Screen Sharing
If you like VNC, like me, then use the built-in ‘Screen Sharing’ feature on OSX, it’s way, way faster then my old client ‘Chicken of the VNC’. It also seems to work much better, ‘hover events’ like going to the bottom of the screen to bring up the dock work great, it never really did with ‘Chicken’.
Playback with PS3
Just been trying Playback from Yazsoft, it’s very good, and they are pretty much giving it away at £11 (around $18?).
I had a small amount of unreliability at first, but it seems fine now, I was also fiddling with ‘Rivet’ (seems a bit slow at generating thumbnails) at the time, so that may have been the problem, also, restarting my PS3 solved it, I never had to restart...